Yep, My uid was > 64k. I changed it to an arbitrary < 64k number in /etc/passwd and it works fine now.
Thanks to you and Igor for the help. Hans Deragon -----Original Message----- From: Pierre A. Humblet [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 8:10 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: New setup: User not found? /cygdrive/h as default home director y? On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 02:07:11PM -0400, Hans Deragon (LMC) wrote: > Greetings. > > > Long time user of cygwin. Got a new job and off course, first thing I do is > install it. However, I am encounting a problem I never had in previous > installations. The installation was successfull, but when I started a command line > window (cygwin.bat), I got the following: > > id: cannot find name for user ID 18544 Hans, here is another possibility in addition to what Igor already wrote. You may have a uid > 64k. If that is the case, edit /etc/passwd and change it (the next version of Cygwin will use 32 bit uids). > mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive/h': No such file or directory > cp: cannot create regular file `/cygdrive/h//.bash_profile': No such file or dir > ectory > bash: cd: /cygdrive/h: No such file or directory If you installed as a domain user, the installation program created an entry for you with the command "mkpasswd -l -c". It uses HOMEDRIVE/HOMEPATH to determine your home directory. Run "mkpasswd -l -c" and look at the last line to see who Cygwin thinks you are. Pierre -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
